Mike Wood

Mike Wood was born in 1976. Shortly after finishing his undergraduate degree, Wood stood as a Conservative candidate for Quarry Bank and Cradley ward on Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, the first of a run of unsuccessful elections. He stood for the same ward again in 1999 and stood unsuccessfully for different seats on the council a further five times. In 2014, Wood was finally elected as a councillor for Pedmore and Stourbridge East. He worked for Alexander Macmillan a Conservative MEP for Southwest of England, after which he spent four years as a policy advisor in the European Parliament before working for Conservative MPs Andrew Griffiths and James Morris. A year after his election in 2015, he was one of the Conservative MPs investigated by police for allegedly spending more than the legal limit on their election campaign, though no further action was taken. Wood is a member of the pro-Brexit European Research Group. Unlike many of his counterparts, however, he voted for Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement on all three occasions. He sat on the European Scrutiny Committee between 2016 and 2017, and has chaired the APPGs for beer and the commonwealth games.